steveGswine:FTA: Putin accused the United States of engineering the country's troubles, suggesting it was using Ukrainians as guinea pigs in some kind of misguided experiment."They sit there across the pond as if in a lab running all kinds of experiments on the rats," Putin said. "Why would they do it? No one can explain it."

Did... did Putin really drop a "you can't explain that" into the public record here?

Headso:Lt. Cheese Weasel: Send in John Kerry and his strongly worded letter stating how upset we are.

no send in the chicken hawk teabagger brigade, you can lead the charge in your hoverround.

Half a league, half a league,Half a league onward,All in the valley of Death,Rode the six hundred.'Forward, the Hoverround Brigade!Charge for the guns' he said:Into the valley of DeathRode the six hundred.

'Forward, the Hoverround Brigade!'Was there a man dismay'd?Not tho' the teabaggers knewSome one had blunder'd:Theirs not to make reply,Theirs not to reason why,Theirs but to do and die:Into the valley of DeathRode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,Cannon to left of them,Cannon in front of themVolley'd and thunder'd;Storm'd at with shot and shell,Boldly they rode and well,Into the jaws of Death,Into the mouth of HellRode the six hundred.

Flash'd all their Big Gulps bare,Flash'd as they turned in airwaving their gadsden flags the gunners there,Charging an army whileAll the world wonder'd:Plunged in the battery-smokeRight thro' the line they broke;Cossack and RussianReel'd from the wheel smokeShatter'd and sunder'd.Then they rode back, but notNot the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,Cannon to left of them,Cannon behind themVolley'd and thunder'd;Storm'd at with shot and shell,While hoverround and real patriots fell,They that had fought so wellCame thro' the jaws of Death,Back from the mouth of Hell,All that was left of them,Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?O the wild charge they made!All the world wonder'd.Honour the charge they made!Honour the Hoverround Brigade,Noble six hundred!

SlothB77:So what does happens after Russia invades the Ukraine? What happens after we let Russia get away with this? Will the rest of the world be a safer, more peaceful place or a dangerous, more war-torn place? Will other rogue leaders be more inclined or less inclined to be aggressive? Will our allies be more trusting or less trusting of our support? Will our allies be confident that we are willing to help defend them if they are in peril?

And why is Russia invading the Ukraine? Because the Ukraine just attacked them? Because the Ukraine sent terrorists to attack Russia? None of that. This is pure Russian imperialism. The USA didn't do anything close to this in Iraq. We freed the people of Iraq from a dictatorship. Russia saw Ukrainians exercising democracy, ousting a dictator and sent their military in to re-establish dictatorship.

By being a weak, spineless leader, Obama is making the world a much more dangerous place. He is alienating and punishing our allies and rewarding our enemies. No one fears Obama and that lets rogue leaders run roughshod over the world, lets them murder their own citizens. If we let the Russians take the Ukraine, what is to stop them from going after Moldova or Belarus or Poland or Romania or Bulgaria next? Or all of them

The one thing that we can all be sure of is that, whatever happens, you will be completely wrong about it.

Lt. Cheese Weasel:Send in John Kerry and his strongly worded letter stating how upset we are.

I thought Kerry was going to release a statement, stating that he MAY release a strongly worded letter to the UN, who should then send in Rip Torn with a bucket of strongly worded confetti for Putin to enjoy.